Androfiogon.'] Graminece. 235 



dorsally compressed, callus elongate, decurrent on the 

 peduncle and with it shortly laterally fulvously bearded; 

 glume I chartaceous, narrowed from above the broad base to 

 the truncate tip, dorsally convex, aculeolate towards the tip, 

 glabrous, smooth, veins 2-3, obscure, II as long, lanceolate, 

 acuminate or aristulate, laterally compressed, keel setosely 

 ciliate, III shorter, linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, retrorsely 

 ciliate, IV narrow, hyaline, eciliate, awn terminal, scabrid, not 

 twisted, about as long as the spikelet; lodicules minute, 

 cuneate; styles and stigmas short; pedicelled spikelets 5 in., 

 pedicels compressed, nearly as long as the sessile spikelets, 

 sparsely pubescent below the spikelet, glume I thin, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, dorsally convex, 3-veined, keels ciliate towards 

 the tip, II membranous, dorsally convex, 3-veined, III hyaline, 

 oblong, acuminate, veinless, IV smaller, broader, 3-veined, 

 paleate, II, III, and IV all retrorsely ciliate, palea of IV short, 

 linear, oblong, obtuse, eciliate; anth. yV in. 



Hotter parts of the Island; abundant in open places. A very trouble- 

 some grass, in the damp zone, up to 4000 ft. (Ferguson). 



Plains and lower hills of India, Nicobar Islds., Trop. Asia, Australia, 

 and Polynesia. 



9. A. zeylanicus, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 397 (1854). 



A. nodulibarbis, Hochst.; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 553. Chrysopogort 

 Wightianus, Thw. Enum. 366, excl. var. (3 (non Nees). C. zeylanicus, 

 Thw. 1. c. Rhaphis zeylanica, Nees ex Steud. 1. c. C. P. 996, 3248. 



Fl. B. Ind. 



Perennial ; stems densely tufted, 1-3 ft., stout or slender, 

 erect, simple or branched, leafy chiefly at the base, upper- 

 most internodes usually very long and slender; 1. 6-16 by 

 Yo-6 i n -j linear, fiat complicate or convolute, tip narrowed 

 obtuse or acute, coriaceous, rigid, glabrous or laxly hairy on 

 both surfaces, hairs often tubercle-based, margins scabrid, 

 midrib and veins very prominent beneath, sheaths com- 

 pressed, of lower 1. short, broad, flattened, keeled, equi- 

 tant, of upper narrow, mouth not auricled, ligule of very 

 long hairs ; panicle 5-8 in., ovate-oblong, lax, rhachis slender, 

 smooth or nearly so, branches whorled, -|-i<j in., capillary, 

 flexuous, simple or again branched, tips bearded terminated 

 by 1-3 sessile spikelets with their attached pedicelled ; 

 sessile spikelets T 4 o in., narrowly oblong, callus long, rufously 

 bearded laterally; glume I linear, coriaceous, dorsally rounded 

 and hispidly scabrid above, II narrow, sides complicate, 

 tip bifid with a short scabrid awn, III shorter, oblong, 

 obtuse, retrorsely hyaline, ciliate, IV very narrow, linear, tip 

 2-lobed, awn about 1 in., hispidulous, forming a stout midrib, 

 which narrows downwards to the base of the glume, palea o ; 



